Oh, Man! I almost didn't sleep today, either. I did NOT hit the catnip again, though. I am still hurting from the other day. I was concerned because someone else is telling Mr. scot's stories before I can! The book has not even been released yet, so how would anyone know the stories on "I am a Killer," a television series on Netflix? It must be another cat. No other being on Earth would be intelligent enough to steal Mr. scot's stories! I must tell you this one before the other cat does! (Although that should tell you that my stories are true!) That is a Baleen whale in the picture. Baleen whales lure their prey into their mouths by using an appendage that looks like food. Their prey (usually something as small as a shrimp) then swims into the whale's mouth. The whale then closes its mouth and eats its prey. In other words, Baleen whales are con artists! Now, I will tell you the story of a human kennel dweller that acted as if he were a Baleen whale. "Jon" (not his real name, of course) was a stockbroker in the human world. He was not making enough money to keep him satisfied, though,so he decided to emulate his idol, Charles Ponzi, and develop a "multi-level marketing scheme" (a.k.a. a Ponzi scheme). Jon was a very good salesman. He swindled many people out of their life's savings. One was a widow with no other means of support, and another was a mentally challenged adult who had just lost his parents to death. He had no one to make his decisions for him so he fell for the Ponzi scheme. One of the victims complained to the police. The police employed a very savvy undercover cop who was good with computers. He developed many different identities, each with various financial woes. "Jon" also had many identities to lure different victims into his trap. The difference was that the cop had enough savvy to use different I.P. addresses. "Jon" was not that smart. He did not realize with whom he was speaking, a client who could determine his i.p. address with his computer programs. Between that, and the fact that all of the money he took from the cop was from government funds that could easily be traced, got "Jon" arrested. Each of five felony convictions for fraud, racketeering, and falsifying documents carried a two years sentence. However, "Jon" was sentenced to twenty years in a Texas State Correctional Facility. He served twenty-one. Why, you ask? One of "Jon's" victims was so distraught over losing his life's savings, which "Jon" refused to refund to him, that he committed suicide. This is called "negligent homicide" and carries a ten-year sentence in the state of Texas. That is where this case was tried, because the crime was committed in this state, regardless of where "Jon" was located. Texas has some of the stiffest laws in the union for crimes like this. The judge gave "Jon" the maximum sentence allowed for each conviction, to be served consecutively, NOT concurrently. Each time that "Jon" came up for parole, the family of the victim that had committed suicide objected. This kept "Jon" in prison. "Jon" was also not a very nice person. He argued with security and medical staff constantly. The warden gave him a two year "set-off," extending his sentence by two years. He was also transferred from a minimum security prison to a maximum security prison, where he shared a dorm with murderers, rapists and child molesters, i.e. the scum of the earth (where HE belonged, in my opinion). It was the warden at his first facility that arranged this. Because "Jon" got along well with the hardened criminals (because that is where he BELONGED, in my opinion), he got one year knocked off of his sentence. It was one year LONGER than his original sentence, though. This has been CAl.E. Kat, with more food for thought (tomorrow I will tell you about a human kennel dweller whose greed cost him his life).
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